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Under either of the two "three strikes" schemes the Senate has already passed (the House has yet to act), a violent felon could be sent to prison for life without the possibility of parole if he committed a third, federal crime following two previous state convictions. As currently written, three strikes could work like this: a mugger shoves a woman while snatching her purse; strike one. The same criminal stiff-arms a store clerk while swiping a coat; strike two. Twenty years later (there are no intervals in either proposal), the same person punches a federal official, or assaults someone...
...widely known after Davis was charged with Klaas' murder two weeks ago, have helped fuel the petition campaign for a measure titled "Three Strikes and You're Out." The California initiative, whose language is similar to a bill recently adopted in Washington State, triples the sentence of a violent felon convicted for the third time, effectively jailing him for a minimum of 25 years. Says its coordinator, Chuck Cavalier: "We had tremendous support before the Klaas case, but ((since Davis was captured)) our 800 number has got so many calls we blew out the voice-mail systems." (Not everybody...
...Harvard police recover between $50,000 and $100,000 in gems stolen from the Harvard Mineralogical Museum at the apartment of Extension School student and convicted felon James Arthur Hogue. Hogue, who defrauded Princeton University but of $22,000 in financial aid, has compiled a long arrest record and several aliases...
James Arthur Hogue, a convicted felon, was charged with two counts of larceny of greater than $250, and one count of receiving stolen property, according to Jill Reilly, a spokesperson for the Middlesex Country District Attorney's Office...
...felon who defrauded Princeton of $22,000 was never extradited to Utah. Hogue was set free last year. Arriving in Cambridge, he enrolled at Harvard's Extension School--this time under what police believe is his real name, James Arthur Hogue...